Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing · Kentucky

Kentucky Chrome Works

Name: Kentucky Chrome Works Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Horse Cave, KY · ~85 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 5.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Kentucky Chrome Works runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kentucky Chrome Works: 2.3 TCR = 42% of Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kentucky Chrome Works safety composite

Kentucky Chrome Works scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Kentucky Chrome Works held a steady TCR band

Kentucky Chrome Works's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.1 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.1 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Horse Cave, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.3 · 42% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #19/55
PHOTO Carpenter Industries…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carpenter Industries Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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8462_19264

2.3

What this shows Kentucky Chrome Works averages 2.3 TCR (42% of the Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Kentucky Chrome Works TCR series: 2017=0.1 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 5.4

Where Kentucky Chrome Works falls in its industry

772 Rims, automotive, truck, and b establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 55 Rims, automotive, truck, and b employers in Kentucky.

Kentucky Chrome Works (85 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Kentucky Chrome Works has fewer employees than the Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses
2023	0.0	0.0	3	0
2022	1.8	1.8	1	0
2021	7.1	5.3	3	1
2017	0.1	0.1	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · KY · Horse Cave

772 Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 9 employers in Horse Cave, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Carpenter Industries Inc	CONCORD, NC	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Adams Thermal Systems	CANTON, SD	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ventra Plastics Russellville	RUSSELLVILLE, KY	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	8462_19264	SARANAC, MI	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Unlimited Contract Services Guthrie	GUTHRIE	85 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Owensboro	OWENBORO	85 FTE
STATE-SIZE	FPB Service Center	FRANKFORT	85 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Highland Roofing Company	LOUISVILLE	85 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dart Container Horse Cave	Horse Cave	1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dart Container, Inc. of KY	Horse Cave	1,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR	T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg	Horse Cave	673 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Marzetti Company	Horse Cave	525 FTE
NAT-TCR	Micronutrients USA, LLC	Indianapolis, IN	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Erie Mechanical Contractors, Inc	East Syracuse, NY	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Source MO	Bentonville, AR	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nobles Worldwide	St. Croix Falls, WI	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Jim Mlady Nissan	Crystal Lake, IL	85 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Eastern Lift Truck Co., Inc. Br5	Hagerstown, MD	85 FTE
NAT-SIZE	America's Thrift Store #10	Ocean Springs, MS	85 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stokes Motors Inc	Bluffton, SC	85 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.